19th September, 1607. The Clerk’s child having died of the plague, and being carried through the gate of the Hall, an order came from the Lord Mayor commanding the Court not to sit for 28 days, and it was thereupon ordered that the Courts should sit at Mr. Fenton’s house in Bartholomew’s Court during that period. This daye it is ordered that Carehills wyef be warned to the hall against the next Court for keepinge of twoe shoppes of Barbinge w{th}out Bisshoppesgate. 8th October, 1607. This daye it is ordered by this Courte uppon due considerac͠on had That from henceforth the M{rs} or Governors of this Company every yere yerely shall geve to the Recorder of this Cytie a yerely fee of money oute of the stock of this Company at their pleasures so that it exceede not the somme of iiij{li.} It was ordered that no liveryman should henceforth-- attend in his lyvery and w{th}out a ruffe band uppon payne of xij{d} for evˀy offence. 3rd November, 1607. This daye uppon the humble suite of one wydowe Burrows shee is admitted to keepe her Barbors shop where shee now dothe for 2 yeres next ensuinge not w{th}standinge that w{th}in the said tyme shee mary an husbond of any oth{r} trade. 1st December, 1607. This daye Thomas Allen[161] and James Mullins were fined for wearinge of falleinge bands w{th} their livˀy gownes. [161] The first Master of Dulwich College. 21st January, 1608. This daye it is ordered that . . . . Braye [be appointed] Informer to pˀsecute suites by informac͠on against such pˀsons as the pˀnt Masters shall noĩat for one yere next ensuinge at the chardgꝭ of this howse And hee is to have tenne poundes for his paynes therein. 27th January, 1608. Five of the Company were fined for not being at the funeral of Mistress Izard in their liveries. 5th April, 1608. This daye lycence is geeven to Will{m} Buckley to arrest John Dodd breakeinge his wyndowes. 21st July, 1608. This daye it was thought fit that the pˀnt Assistantꝭ showld sit in Court w{th}out their Gownes for that the weath{r} is hot. It is ordered that the laste quarters penc͠on due to John a Lee lately deceased shalbe paid to the poore woman w{ch} kept him in his sicknes. At almost every Court, charities in sums varying from 2{s} to 40{s} were given to poor members for their relief, or to the widows of former members, and in many cases yearly annuities were granted out of the stock of the house, independent of the Trust charities distributed by the Court. 14th February, 1609. This daye John Stubbes one of my lord maiors officers is appoynted a Serjeant to this Company. 27th June, 1609. This daye it is ordered that George Dugdale shall before Michaelmas next paye to Thomas Shephard v{s} w{ch} hee oweth him ORELS to be Committed to the Compter.